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Acleris cervinana (Femald) 



Teras cervinana Femald, 1882, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, p. 65. — Grote, 

 1882, New check list of North American moths, p. 57, no. 28. 



Alceris [sicj cervinana. — Fernald, [1903], U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 475, no. 

 5323, 1902. 



Peronea cervinana. — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 

 10, p. 61; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 62. — Barnes 

 and McDunnough, 1917, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, 

 p. 178, no. 7416.— Barnes and Busck, 1920, Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. North 

 America, vol. 4, pi. 32, fig. 7. — Blackmore, 1921, British Columbia Prov. 

 Mus. Rept., 1920, p. 24.— Forbes, [1924], Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. 

 Mem. 68, p. 483, 1923.— McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. Res., vol. 11, 

 pp. 316, p. 328 (fig. 1), 332 (fig. 2); 1939, Mem. Southern California Acad. 

 Sci., vol. 2, p. 59, no. 7505. 



The nomiDate form of cervinana was described as having the 

 forewings "reddish fawn colored, touched with white along the costa." 

 It has a dark brown costal spot with a white center, reaching to the 

 middle of discal cell, and some tufts of dark brown raised scales in 

 the discal cell, on the fold near the base of forewing and above this 

 fold, and in the external part of forewing, where these tufts are 

 arranged in an oblique line. In the form americana (see below!) the 

 forewings should be "white, dimly reticulated with light red which is 

 suffused along the borders." The costal spot of americana is dark 

 red, composed of three parts touching each other. Two red lines 

 originate from this spot, and run across the forewing. The tufts 

 of black scales on the fold of forewings and over it, are similar to 

 those of the nominate form of cervinana. 



The present author saw only some few specimens corresponding 

 completely to the diagnoses of the nominate form cervinana and form 

 americana. Until a complete revision of the variation of this species 

 is done, it seems reasonable to indicate all specimens with reticulation 

 of forewings as form americana, to ignore the remaining characters 

 of this form, and to treat all specimens without reticulation as form 

 cervinana. Some specimens of these two forms have a solid costal 

 spot; others have it formed by an arch or composed of three parts. 

 The color of this spot varies from pale brown or gray to reddish, 

 dark brown, or black. The lines originating from this spot may be 

 well developed or lacking; sometimes only one of them is lacldng, 

 or one may be reduced in its lower part. The ground color of fore- 

 wings varies from whitish gray or pale ochreous to gray and reddish 

 brown; in some specimens the light ground is slightly touched with 

 some of the above colors. In the form americana, the color of re- 

 ticulation varies from pale brown to chestnut bro^\^l or almost black. 

 McDunnough (1934) mentioned a specimen which cannot be identi- 

 fied with the nominate form of cervinana or with form americana. 



